xvi, 502 pages : 24 cm

"Michael Kort revisits the turning points in Russia's modern history - from the fall of the old regime to the establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship and Stalinist totalitarianism; from the reforms and counter-reforms of Kruschev and Brezhnev to the tumultuous years of change under Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. This new edition brings the story up through the first decade of the 21st century and the unchallenged leadership of Vladimir Putin."--Publisher's description

The fundamentals of Russian history. Prologue ; The autocratic state ; The nineteenth-century crisis ; The people ; The intelligentsia: strangers in a strange land -- The end of the old order. Capitalism comes to Russia ; The revolutionaries regroup ; The final years and last stand -- Lenin's Russia. 1917: Russia's two revolutions ; Into the fire: the civil war ; New policies and new problems -- Steeling the revolution. Bolshevism without Lenin ; The revolution from above ; Trial by fire: the great patriotic war ; Stalin's September songs -- The socialist superpower. Khrushchev: reforming the revolution ; The Brezhnev era: the graying of the revolution ; Gorbachev: from restructuring to deconstruction -- The Russian federation. The Russian devolution ; Russia in the twenty-first century

Includes bibliographical references and index

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